Julius Smith

Julius did the following:

• Wrote an introductory tutorial³ on developing virtual musical instruments and effects using the Faust language and Pure Data program environment, among others.
• Wrote materials⁴ for advanced laboratory assignments on developing virtual electric guitars and associated effects in the Faust language. This material will be extended and ported into specific laboratory assignments during winter quarter (for Music 420).
• Worked with Nick Porcaro on porting virtual electric guitars from SynthBuilder to the Synthesis Tool Kit (STK).
• Ported laboratory subprojects to the Connexions project at Rice University. The automatic translation tools are working very well, and only a handful of bugs are awaiting attention from the Connexions technical staff. The required ZIP file for uploading a RealSimple project to Connexions can be created in any subproject by changing to its directory and typing ``make tralics''. (Tralics is the LaTeX to XML converter used by Connexions.) A significant added value associated with the port to Connexions is that for the first time all mathematics will be rendered online as MathML (Math Markup Language). This means math can be copy/pasted into other applications such as Mathematica like normal text. (In contrast, online math on the CCRMA website is handled using bit-map images and ALT text containing the original LaTeX expression.)

• Developed example usage of the transfer function measurement toolbox developed for the project last year.

• Submitted an eight-page paper on selected results from the quarter to the Linux Audio Conference (which has been accepted). This paper is largely a condensation of [1].⁵

• Submitted an abstract on developments beyond the LAC-2008 paper to the upcoming Acoustics'08 meeting in Paris next summer.